The average U.S. movie ticket price for the three months that ended in June was $8.38, up 3.2% from the same period last year, according to the National Assn. of Theatre Owners, an industry group. The average price increased 5.5% from $7.94 in the first quarter.

On Wednesday, Forbes released its annual list of highest-paid actors and, for the first time, Robert Downey Jr. topped the list. The man best known these days for playing Tony Stark had raked in $75 million between June 2012 and June of this year, best among all actors.

After 10 people were shot — seven of them in one incident — overnight in Baltimore following the city's most violent month in decades, police announced Sunday that 10 federal agents will embed with the city's homicide unit for the next two months.